Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said she believes she has been exonerated even though her office is undertaking numerous changes in how it reports election night results following the non-reporting of 14,000 votes in the spring Supreme Court election.

"After an extensive four month investigation by the GAB I have been exonerated of all wrong doing," Nickolaus said at a news conference in Madison Tuesday.

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Board director Kevin Kennedy says he would not characterize the investigation as exonerating Nickolaus, but he said she has been cooperative in working on changes in her procedures.

"That was a condition of our investigation that these procedures be developed to ensure that there would be that confidence moving forward and Kathy was very cooperative on this," Kennedy said.

State investigators in September determined that Nickolaus likely broke the law by not reporting the votes in the race between Justice David Prosser and challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg, but her conduct wasn't criminal.

Nickolaus appeared at Tuesday's meeting of the Government Accountability Board, which approved numerous changes designed to improve the procedures used by her office on election night.